The Chairman of Heirs Holdings, Tony Elumelu has
identified agriculture as the biggest employer of labor on the Africa
continent, saying that about forty percent of Africa’s GDP is accounted for by
agriculture.
The Founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation added
that the only way to transform Africa is to fix agriculture, which is the
reason for the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurs Program (TEEP) which seeks to
identify 10,000 Africans over a period of ten years and give them ten thousand
dollars each.
“We give them five thousand dollars as first
installment and train them for twelve weeks and as they graduate, we appoint
coordinators for them. And as they improve their business concepts, we decide
when to give them the remaining installment of five thousand dollars.”
“Fixing the African continent is my major desire
that is why I decided to give a lot of attention to young Africans in that
sector. And it is quite exciting for me to discover that young Africans are
interested in choosing agriculture as a profession.”
The first and second batches of the TEEP comprise
of over thirty percent involved in agriculture which indicates that young
people are interested in agriculture.
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